China Stops the 'Sea of Death'

China has stopped the 'Sea of Death', as the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is known. China successfully completed a project to create a green protective belt around the desert. This project, which lasted almost 40 years, aimed to combat desertification and prevent sandstorms that pose a serious threat to the ecology and infrastructure of the region. The Chinese created a green belt 3045 km long made of tamarisk, saxaul, cistanche, and other plants.